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re: Invalid certificate issued to localhost.localdomain when remotely access SBS 2008 from a Windows PC

David Overton — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:19:19 GMT

Mark,

the self-issued certificate that SBS uses can be found at \\<yourserver>\public\public downloads - you should see a zip and directory with the self-signed certificate. If you use an IP address then it may not work both inside and outside your network - better to use a name. So uninstall the old cert, install the newly created self-signed certificate and away you go.

So, my advice, buy a domain, register it and use a dynamic dns service if required (if you don't have a fixed IP address) otherwise e-mail can't come in and the certs will fail.

Thanks

David

re: Installing Office 2003 and Office 2007 on the same system

joshua — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:30:20 GMT

Thanks for the great tips David, lots of good information here!

re: Auto-reply tool for Windows live Messenger

idris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:37:48 GMT

hi plz how can i make vacation reply

re: Invalid certificate issued to localhost.localdomain when remotely access SBS 2008 from a Windows PC

mark — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:28:30 GMT

Thanks for the info, but you say you had to "install the correct new certificate". I don't want to buy a cert, so how do I have the server create a new certificate? I guess I need a cert with the IP address in the name since I'll be using the IP to get to RWW? Or am I off track?

re: How to get rid of the installer / configuration dialog when running Office 2007 and Office 2003 on the same system - for Vista and other versions of Windows

Rinoscar — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:56:12 GMT

Hello Mr.David,

I have office home and student 2007, with windows xp home. The fix you gave for the reconfigure work for the word, powerpoint and onenote, but it did not work for excel. When I open excel the configuration restarts.

re: How to get the Office Assistant (Office 2003) to work in Windows Vista, i.e. remove the "Not enough memory" error messages

arnaud — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:07:05 GMT

Merci beaucoup! ca m'a super aidé!

Thanks a lot ,it helps me very much! from the other side of atlantic!!! FRENCHY

re: How to get the Office Assistant (Office 2003) to work in Windows Vista, i.e. remove the "Not enough memory" error messages

Kevin Cobley — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:05:05 GMT

Links to m/s agent are non functional! Looks lke Microsoft eirht movesd or closed page! "not found"

re: How to get rid of the installer / configuration dialog when running Office 2007 and Office 2003 on the same system - for Vista and other versions of Windows

James - Australia — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:38:07 GMT

Thank god to you all! This was an extremely frustraing issue. The fix that finally worked for me was Samanem's above. Woohoo!

re: How to get the Office Assistant (Office 2003) to work in Windows Vista, i.e. remove the "Not enough memory" error messages

Jessica — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:46:58 GMT

thank you. <3!

re: How to get the Office Assistant (Office 2003) to work in Windows Vista, i.e. remove the "Not enough memory" error messages

Carmen — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:37:03 GMT

Thank you David this totally worked for me and resolved my issue with my office assistant. I now can change it to my favorite the little robot. Vista is tricky....

Thanks Carmen

re: Office Small Business 2007 – get up to 25% off in the UK

Jules — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:54:34 GMT

Heya there Dave,

Will get you some quotes and purchases and such that I have got recently and send them over to you...

Regards

Jules

re: You can't use Outlook Web Access because you can't send or reply to mails. You've seen a server update will fix it, but you can't get the server updated - here is the simplest way to work

BJ Smith — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:41:44 GMT

Thanks so much for the easy fix. I use 2007 and just clicked the light option and wow. Thanks again.

re: Office Small Business 2007 – get up to 25% off in the UK

David Overton — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:26:18 GMT

Jules,

I'm not aware of price rises, the opposite infact - do you want to mail me some details?

Thanks

David

re: Office Small Business 2007 – get up to 25% off in the UK

Jules@Ginger Inc. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:18:27 GMT

Heya there David,

Not quite sure what the "sale" is here - I bought Office FPP for less than this in what, October / November...

Does that mean we are in for 25% hike in January? (Making it the second hike in 6 months!)

re: Moving Virtual Machines Between Servers with Microsoft Virtualisation Technology (Virtual Server)

David Overton — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:56:53 GMT

Alex,

You are and you are not right. One of my jobs in the past was building mission critical solutions and you always have to expect things to fail as part of the design, so even with this limitation in Hyper-V today a very highly available solution can be delivered - certainly as highly available as a solution based on a Live Migration scenario.

However, to answer your point - yes, Microsoft's own products will deliver this in the future. Most users do not have a solution that is singuarly dependent on a server that if it fails will cost then a lot of money. Live migration gives you no extra benefit vs a system failing, where as clustering and good design can.

ttfn

David